Best-sellers, Worst-sellers, and the Question of Canonicity: Gustav Freytag's "Die Ahnen" and Theodor Fontane's "Vor dem Sturm"

Ben Schofield

Best-sellers, Worst-sellers, and the Question of Canonicity: Gustav Freytag's "Die Ahnen" and Theodor Fontane's "Vor dem Sturm"

Ben Schofield

German

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Abstract

Text of the talk given to the Annual Meeting of the Friends of German Studies, May 2012

Original language	English
Pages	6-9
Number of pages	4
Specialist publication	Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS Newsletter
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

German Studies
German Literature
19th Century
Gustav Freytag
Theodor Fontane
Bestseller
Bestselling fiction
Worstseller
Worstselling fiction

2 Book
2 Chapter

‘Die Historie rückwärts durchmessen’. Geschichtsbilder und Geschichtsauffassungen bei Theodor Fontane und Gustav Freytag
Translated title of the contribution: Conceptualisations of History in the Works of Theodor Fontane and Gustav FreytagSchofield, B., 2013, Theodor Fontane. Dichter des Uebergangs: Beitraege zur Fruehjahrstagung der Theodor Fontane Gesellschaft 2010. Howe, P. (ed.). Wuerzburg: Koenighausen und Neumann, p. 57-70 13 p. (Fontaneana).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Bestseller
Schofield, B., 2012, The German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth Century. Schofield, B. & C. W. (eds.). Rochester, NY: Camden House, p. 21-38 18 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Private Lives and Collective Destinies: Class, Nation and the Folk in the Works of Gustav Freytag (1816-1895)
Schofield, B., 2012, Modern Humanities Research Association ed. London: Maney. 219 p. (MHRA Texts and Dissertations)(Bithell Series of Dissertations)
Research output: Book/Report › Book

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Best-sellers, Worst-sellers, and the Question of Canonicity: Gustav Freytag's "Die Ahnen" and Theodor Fontane's "Vor dem Sturm"

Abstract

Keywords

Research output

‘Die Historie rückwärts durchmessen’. Geschichtsbilder und Geschichtsauffassungen bei Theodor Fontane und Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Bestseller

Private Lives and Collective Destinies: Class, Nation and the Folk in the Works of Gustav Freytag (1816-1895)

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